Bolt board



March 22,1927.

A. WOLF BOLT scum Filed July 20, 1926 a. w .0 m v A Patented Mar. 22, 1927.

warren s'rM-Es ALBERT VIG-LE, OF CANTON, Q-HIO;

BOLT BOA-RD.

Application filed July 20,

The device forming the subject matter of tl1is-application is a bolt-board or core about which a strip of cloth or other i'na terial may be wound, the core being provided with a recess in which is mounted movabjly a receptacleadapted to contain samples of the goods which are wound on the board.

The invention aims to provide novel means for maintaining the receptacle in closed relation with respect to the board, and, generally, to improve and enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

The particular object of the present invention is to provide an improved form of receptacle, over that shown in my copending application Serial No. 92,725 fi ed March 6, 1926; whereby, among other advantages, there will be less waste of sheet material in cutting a plurality of the blanks to be bent to form receptacles, there will be a more de endable friction grip by the bowspring e ement relative to a wall of the recess when the receptacle is within the recess, manual withdrawal of the receptacle about a pivotal point in the recess will be facilitated, such withdrawal means will be more stifiiy carried by another part of the receptacle, and yet the bending up of the blank to form the receptacle Wlll be practicable at low cost and by the use of comparatively inexpensive dies.

l/Vith the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description procecds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the scope of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings, which are to be taken as part of this specification, and in which I have shown merely a preferred form of embodiment of the invention Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a boltboard, embodying the invention, with parts broken away to show certain structural features;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view, broken away, taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 shows the blank before being folded to form the receptacle.

was. serial 110.12%,760.

Referring to the numerals on the drawings, a "bolt-board or core is shown in Fig. 1, comprising longitudinal frame pieces 4, united by cross-pieces 5, the whole being covered with stout paper or the like "Ofne of the end cross-pieces 5 is provided with a transverse throu h o ening 7 in much is pivotally secured a sample receptacle or drawer-like member 8. This receptacle may conveniently be formed up from a fiat blank such as shown in Fig. 4, having a bottom portion 9, end walls 10 and side walls 11, these end and side walls being bent up as indicated in Fig. 2.

One of the end walls 10, that one shown to the right in Fig. 4, is bent up to approach the line of bend of front side wall 11, at an angle less than a right angle, and then the a front portion of said end wall is bent slightly inward, as along the line of fold indicated at 12 in Fig. 4. This shapes said wall 10 as a bow-spring, for frictional coaction with the adjacent wall of the recess or opening 7 when the receptacle is Within the latter. The line of fold 12 is not seen in Fig. 3, as it actually may lie substantially directly under the short edge portion indicated at 10 in Fig. 2. The front side wall 11 is prolonged opposite the bowed end wall 10, to form a tab or finger piece 14, for limiting inward pivotal movement of the receptacle relative to recess 7, and for manually pivotally withdrawing the receptacle from the recess. For mounting the receptacle within the recess, to permit the pivotal movements just mentioned, a nail 15 may be driven through the top and bottom walls of the recess and the bottom of the receptacle. If desired, a smoother and thicker free-end edge portion may be given to tab 14 by folding the same back and under, as indicated at 14 in Figs. 2 and 4.

Inasmuch as many changes could be made in the above construction, and many apparently widely different embodiments of my invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the language contained in the following claims is intended to cover all generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebctween.

I claim 1. The combination with a bolt-board having an opening in one of its ends, of a receptacle pivoted therein adjacent to one of the ends of the receptacle, said receptacle having at its opposite end a bow-spring that makes contact with the opposed wall of the opening when the receptacle is within the opening, said bow-spring also acting as an end Wall for the receptacle.

2. A receptacle for sample pieces of fabric adapted to be pivotally mounted in an end recess in a bolt-board for said fabric, said receptacle being made from a single blank of sheet material, said blank including an end wall bent laterally to form a bow-spring element.

3. The receptacle defined in claim 2, wherein said blank also includes a front wall having an end portion prolonged to form a tab extended beyond said recess when the receptacle is within the recess.

4. The receptacle defined in claim 2, wherein said blank includes a front wall, and wherein the lines of fold of the blank resulting from the bending up of said walls approach each other at an angle less than a right angle.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ALBERT WOLF. 

